Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-29 Thread Darren Stevens
Hello Aneesh On 28/06/2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Another option is to init it along with rest of the variables as done in > hash__early_init_mmu(void)/radix__early_init_mmu(void) *FACEPALM* Why didn't I think of that! I've made this change and seems to work - obviously I can't test on a Radi

Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-29 Thread Darren Stevens
Hello Michael > I can't merge this because you didn't sign it off. TBH I wasn't really expecting you too. > See section 11 of: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches Read and understood (I hope).. Regards Darren ___ Linuxpp

Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-29 Thread Darren Stevens
Hello Benjamin On 27/06/2016, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Tell me more, when is that mapping done ? I'm changing things so that > platform probe is called much later so that might have an impact. > > What consumes pci_io_base before it's been initialized ? pas_pci_init() is the culprit. Follo

Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-28 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Darren Stevens writes: > Hello All, > > commit d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e > powerpc/mm: vmalloc abstraction in preparation for radix > > This commit introduced variables for some linux kernel addresses that had > before > been constants, unfortunately this stopped Pa

Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-28 Thread Michael Ellerman
Hi Darren, On Sun, 2016-26-06 at 17:42:11 UTC, Darren Stevens wrote: > Hello All, > > commit d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e > powerpc/mm: vmalloc abstraction in preparation for radix > > This commit introduced variables for some linux kernel addresses that had > before >

Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 18:42 +0100, Darren Stevens wrote: > >     commit d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e >     powerpc/mm: vmalloc abstraction in preparation for radix > >     This commit introduced variables for some linux kernel addresses that had > before been constants, unfortunately

Re: Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-26 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi Darren, Fantastic news! I'll test your patch with the RC5 tomorrow. Excellent work! Well done! - Christian Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Jun 2016, at 18:42, Darren Stevens wrote: > > Hello All, > >commit d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e >powerpc/mm: vmalloc abstraction in p

Proposed: Patch to fix boot on PA6T

2016-06-26 Thread Darren Stevens
Hello All, commit d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e powerpc/mm: vmalloc abstraction in preparation for radix This commit introduced variables for some linux kernel addresses that had before been constants, unfortunately this stopped PaSemi PA6T systems(*) from booting as